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A Lincolnshire timber company has been fined after an agency worker lost the top of his finger in an unguarded machine.

Builders merchant buying group NMBS has reached 3000 member branches within the UK, which is more than any national merchant, twice as many as McDonalds and three times as many as Starbucks.

Construction output showed no growth in July when compared with the previous month, but new orders rose at the fastest rate in a year, official statistics have revealed.

Encon Insulation and Marsh Industries have been announced as the final two key sponsors for the BMF All Industry Conference 2015, taking place in Malta next June.

Covers Timber and Builders Merchants with a depot on the Quarry Lane Estate, Chichester, are not only sponsoring the Chichester Half Marathon in aid of Children on the Edge, but they are entering a team for the event too.

Cross-party consensus on how best to deliver new housing and infrastructure projects would result in 200,000 new jobs in the construction sector, according to the industry's leading organisations.

Twyford is launching a fun-oriented 'Bathroom Singer of the Year 2014' competition, designed to engage with a wide audience including merchants, distributors, retailers and consumers, as well as raise money for Children in Need.

The Board of Superglass Holdings plc, the independent insulation manufacturer has revealed that it is investigating options for the sale of its principle trading division, Superglass Insulation.

Trade exhibition the Build Show has signed up the National House Building Council (NHBC) as an event partner.

Following its successful launch three years ago, Parker Plumbing Supplies has opened a second branch, neighbouring its Building Supplies depot in Maidstone, Kent.